A rumor that ABC had fired comedian Jimmy Kimmel from hosting the game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" circulated online in mid-September 2025, largely through social media posts on Facebook. Snopes readers also searched the site looking for more information about the claim.

President Donald Trump celebrated ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk comments and urged NBC to cancel its late-night hosts.

On Wednesday, ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after two prominent affiliate owners vowed to preempt airings of the program following comments Kimmel made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. By Friday, Kimmel was still off the air, prompting questions about if and when the longtime host will return.

Will ABC bring Jimmy Kimmel back -- or will it kick him off the air for good? The network faces a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.

"We don't know anything," the unidentified employee tells PEOPLE exclusively on Friday, Sept. 19, just two days after ABC made the decision to "indefinitely" pull Jimmy Kimmel 's show off the air after the host's recent remarks about the late right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk. "We're all on standby."

Sources told the Daily Mail that the comedian is eager to “break his relationship with [the network] forever” after his talk show was suspended indefinitely.

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel reportedly refused to apologize for controversial remarks about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk before he was taken off the air.

Calls to boycott ABC, Disney and theme parks are growing; Neil Patrick Harris and Jamie Lee Curtis set to celebrate Disneyland anniversary Sunday.

HBO host Bill Maher said Friday that Jimmy Kimmel was “wrong” to suggest that Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin was a MAGA Republican — but slammed his former network ABC for taking the

After FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to take action against Kimmel—and Nexstar Media said it would preempt Kimmel’s show—ABC announced that ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ “will be preempted indefinitely.”

Ted Cruz slammed the FCC’s “mafioso” approach to silencing Jimmy Kimmel “dangerous as hell” and warned Republicans there could be consequences.